Information Overload

If you feel like the victim of brain overload, you probably are. Recent research shows the average adult is bombarded by more than 100,000 words a day and that doesn’t even count what goes on at work.

Scientists say we are being flooded daily with information, and TV is the biggest culprit, supplying 44.9% of the information we see and hear. Surfing the Internet takes up 27% of brain activities and playing games on the computer another 2.7%, for a total of 74.6% of the information overload. That leaves just 8.6% for reading each day, 10.6% listening to the radio, 5.2% talking on the phone, 1.1.% listening to recorded music, and a mere 0.2% for watching movies. What it all means is that people are spending too much time dealing with information and not enough time contemplating their lives.